Marketing your band's new album...

I know. You're a musician. The extent of your marketing and distribution experience extends only to MySpace and getting new fans to sign your mailing list at gigs.

Do yourself a favor and check out The Orchard. For $49.00, you can let them take care of all your online distributions and marketing. All of the companies listed below will be given album info, cover art, mp3's, etc.

eMusic
iTunes
MSN
Real/Rhapsody
Sony Connect
Napster
MusicNet
Yahoo! Music Unlimited
MTV
Virgin Digital
FYE
Musicmatch
Starbucks
Peer Impact
Audio Lunchbox
Download Punk
Next Radio
Cdigix
Pure Tracks
AOL Music Now
Ruckus
Musica360
Street CDs
MisRolas
Reggae Country
Chondo

Synacor
MusicGremlin
iMesh

Burnlounge
Pure Tracks
Tower Records
Univision
B3
HipDigital
Gotuit
Qtrax
BitTorrent
Akoo
Muzak
TouchTunes
Urge
MOD Systems
RawRip
BuyGoodTunes
Spiral Frog
MusicIP
Audible
Beatport
Snocap
Insound
Zune
Mix&Burn
Slacker
Allmusic
The Africa Channel
Musicane
Broadband Instruments
Circuit City

For $99.00, The Orchard will also take care of your physical distribution.

My suggestion would be to take care of this as soon as your album is finished. It took The Orchard a little while to get all our info out to all the important music websites.

After my band, That Rabbit's Dyn-o-mite!, joined TO, our search results went up ten-fold. That was a nice, yet unexpected benefit.

http://www.theorchard.com